There are several scenarios I’d like to play again/for the first time, but I haven’t the faintest idea where to locate patched versions of them. Google hasn’t been much help, at least within the first several results. There are several sites that appear to have them, but are broken.

Megiddo Game. I can get it from my Trilogy CD, but I’m almost certain I’d have to figure out emulation to make it work. I intend to do this someday, but if someone has an already patched/SDL-converted version, it’d certainly be convenient in the short run.

Missed Island. Same deal as Megiddo; I’m pretty sure there was a shapes patch for it and I don’t think it’s been SDL converted. There appear to be links to both of these on Fileball, but they seem to be dead. (I think I recall reading that Fileball itself is no longer functional.)

Gemini Station. I recommended this for testing Marathon Unity because it’s super complex and came out before Aleph One development began; it’s playable without the shapes patch, but a few elements look quite silly. There’s an SDL conversion already, but does someone have a patched version of the shapes?

Noah’s Ark. Old M1 TC. I don’t recall ever even playing this one, but when I re-read the Story Page I found Randy Reddig raving about it in his comments about “Ne cede malis”, indicating that it was a major inspiration for the level, so I want to see what the fuss is about.

Trojan: Legacy. I didn’t know this was ever released, but the Traxus wiki indicates it was released in demo form. It sounded amazing from the creators’ descriptions, though I’m sure a lot of what they’ve described is commonplace in scenarios nowadays given what Aleph One is capable of, but I’m still curious to see the demo.

(For that matter, does anyone have QT2.5 versions of the original Trojan music? Preferably FLAC, but I’ll take MP3, M4A, or Ogg Vorbis if those are all that’s available.)

That’s probably it for now. If anyone has links for any/all of these, I’d be most grateful. In return, I’d probably be happy to start making a more comprehensive set of links to these sorts of things, since I assume they’re scattered around the Internets by now. It’s easy to find most of the big scenarios like Eternal, Phoenix, and Tempus Irae, but some of the smaller ones have fallen by the wayside, and for that matter, even Rubicon’s website seems to go missing fairly often (though it’s currently back again).

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Thanks for all of these; I’m downloading them all now and will edit this reply later if I have any problems.

ETA: Missed Island and Gemini Station don’t seem to be patched; they just have the shapes patchers, but it looks like everything downloaded with no problems. I haven’t actually run any of them yet, though; I’ll update further if I have any other issues.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Not sure I can help here, unfortunately (scenario files don't like being moved from the eMac to my main comp), but I'd like to say: I'd be pretty stoked if you or anyone else in this thread could get M1-based fan scenarios in a playable-on-modern-PCs state somehow. There was a lot of interesting stuff from that era (including "big" scenarios like Trojan and Operation Tantalus) and I don't like the idea of it being effectively lost.

(If there are already ways of playing M1 scenarios outside of emulation--which I don' think I have the means to do, in this case--I don't see them discussed much)

BTW, I've very briefly tried Megiddo and it works fine as long as you're not a derp like me and don't forget to disable the HD shapes plugins at first. I'll look at some of those M1 scenarios later. Thanks for the links.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

Well, I tried playing Operation Tantalus first by putting A1 in the folder (didn't work), then via M1. REALLY didn't work; just trying to switch to the OT .appl crashed M1, then trying to exit Preferences without switching .appls not only crashed M1 again, but force-loaded it straight to the credits when I tried reopening it. Had to delete the "Other" folder I'd set up there in order to rescue it.

Am I not using the right version of A1 or something? (Folder's named "AlephOne-20150620"; I haven't renamed it)